Putting Health on the EU Election Agenda
Giving Health a Voice
European Public Health Alliance
5.0 • 1 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
This episode of Giving Health a Voice focuses on the European Parliament elections. It features EPHA's coordinator of our Politics and Health work, Clementine Delforge, in conversation with Frazer Goodwin.
The episode examines why the European Parliament elections are important, especially to the future of EU health policy. It then explores how EPHA has worked on the election campaign, what it has sought as priorities from those standing, and what it will do before the vote.
The episode ends with a review of how EPHA is providing information to help people decide which political group has supported Health in their manifesto as well as how EPHA will encourage everyone to use their vote. #UseYourVote
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to giving health a voice, where we delve deep into the critical |
| 0:08.3 | public health issues that shape our world. |
| 0:11.4 | 2024 will be a record-breaking year for elections. In the coming months, 2 billion voters |
| 0:18.2 | across 50 countries will be heading to polling stations to make their voices heard. |
| 0:24.1 | This is also a big year for the EU, with the European elections set to take place between |
| 0:28.9 | the 6th and 9th of June. |
| 0:31.4 | This will result in a newly elected parliament, the only EU institutions directly elected by |
| 0:37.3 | EU citizens. |
| 0:38.3 | So we'd like to dedicate this first episode to the importance of the European elections |
| 0:44.3 | and their impact on EU policy, particularly in the realm of health. |
| 0:48.3 | In this episode, Clementine Del Forge from the European Public Health Alliance shares insights into the importance |
| 0:57.0 | of making sure that the ongoing health activities continue into the next mandate. |
| 1:04.0 | And she outlines key priorities for the future. |
| 1:07.0 | She also delves into Eva's election strategy and how we can ensure that the priorities |
| 1:12.5 | we identify are addressed so to secure health for all. I'm Milka Sokolovich, your host. Joining us today is |
| 1:23.6 | Fraser Goodwin, the senior advocacy Coordinator at the European Public Health Alliance, |
| 1:28.3 | who will lead us through this conversation. Over to you, Fraser. |
| 1:36.5 | So I'm sat today with Clementine Richard D'Faurege, and she's the policy officer here at |
| 1:42.9 | Eva that deals with politics and health and so |
| 1:46.0 | she's got a role overseeing all of the work that we're doing alongside the European election campaign |
| 1:52.0 | going into next year so the question I have to start with is why are the elections important to |
| 1:59.0 | for what what role can we play in the campaign? Why are we |
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